'SUNRISE'

Evening Star, Issue 20136, 28 March 1929, Page 7

'SUNRISE'

CAPTIVATING STORY FOR STRAND Admirers of M-insomo Janet Gayilor, m)io made an instantungons hit as Diane in ‘ .Seventh Heaven,’ will have another opportunity of seeing her in a captivating role in ‘ Sunrise.’ which opens at tho Strand Theatre on Saturday. ‘ Sunrise ’ is the most important' picture yet released by FoxFilms, and M'as produced witli an especially selected cast headed by Aliss Guvnor and George O’Brien. Great as mus her triumph in ‘Seventh 1 leaven,’ her performance in ‘ Sunrise! ’ lias been pronounced superior to anything she has previously done, because it calls for a much wider range of histrionic ability and puts her to a test from M'hich less eompetnt stars Mould have M’ithdrawn. The acclaim M'hich ‘ Sunrise ’ received in such large measure in New York, Los Angeles, England, and on the Continent, when it M'as first released. M'as not due entirely, however, to the work of its east. The dramatic simplicity of the story and the phenomenal photography M'ere equally responsible for the praise it. received from the first critics who reviewed it. Probably no picture in the history of the cinema, art has exerted pneh a pulling power over painters, sculptors, architects, illustrators, and artists of every type as has Sunrise.’ This photoplay is iiom’ enjoying a phenomenal success at the 1 Times ’ Square Theatre in New York, ft has been called a “ photograph; poem,” a “ song in pictures,” a “ vision of beauty,” and other superlatives by everyone who bus seen it. Recently a number of M'ell-knoMm illustrators attended a performance and at the end were lavish in their praise. Piquant ■ little Janet Gaynor Ims the role of the wife, George O’Brien that of tho husband, and Margaret Livingstone. the role of the “ woman from the city,”